When the plant was still Continental Can, they brought in a can welder from Switzerland, from FAEL. European engineers must have tiny, delicate hands. American hands were too large to fit under the hopper to change sucker rubbers. Less than a 1/2 inch clearance. Even worst, the drive belt for the rolling unit was a real bear to change, without taking half the pulleys off. What should have taken 15 minutes turned into 45 to 50 minutes.

We had a plant manager for a few years, with a Mechanical Engineering degree, but must have been at the bottom of the class. A re-condition slitter was brought in. After a couple of weeks, it would not cut plate correctly. An old M.E. was in the plant and told the Maintainer to remove some of the shims. The slitter worked the way it was supposed to, then! The old M.E. mentioned the new ones are mostly to stupid to get into the t.v. repair schools advertised on match book covers.